Oracle Cloud vs UpCloud

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Oracle Cloud

Great price-performance ratio
Wide range of server configurations and managed services
Comprehensive hybrid and multi-cloud solutions
10 TB of free egress per month

UpCloud

Wide range of VPS options at competitive prices
Good selection of managed services, from databases to object storage to Kubernetes
Offers a 100% SLA with 50x compensation for service outages
Based in the EU, may ease GDPR compliance

Price comparison

How do Oracle Cloud's prices compare against UpCloud?

Example configuration	Oracle Cloud	UpCloud
VM Small	$10.42 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)	$3.14 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium	$27.53 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)	$54.45 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (General)
VM Large	$92.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)	$167.55 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (High CPU)
Block Storage	$4.25 / mo 100 GB	$23.04 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$25.57 / mo	$20.94 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$7.86 / mo	$10.47 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$70.56 / mo 4 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.Flex.E4)	$62.83 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$27.94 / mo 2 GB RAM	$52.36 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM
Free egress allowance	10 TB / mo	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$8.50 $0.0085 / GB	Free and unlimited 1-24 TB per instance, then lower bandwidth

Oracle Cloud offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
BM.GPU.MI300X.8	8x MI300X	1536GB	56	2000GB	$6.00	Source

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Oracle Cloud and UpCloud offer:

Service	Oracle Cloud	UpCloud
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
Container Registry		--
GPU-powered Servers		--
Load Balancer
Managed Containers		--
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs		--
Serverless Functions		--
Static Sites		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Oracle Cloud	UpCloud
Website	www.oracle.com	upcloud.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	Finland 🇫🇮
Founded	2016	2012
Data Center Locations	39	13
Example Customers	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia	Aiven, Xensam, HackTheBox, LeadDesk

	Oracle Cloud
Website	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2016
Data Center Locations	39
Example Customers	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia